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The word 'laverock'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
laverockOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11712
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of laverock in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
martins fur a single laverock i da lift
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Loving da laverock geein it laldy :-) my first s(2015)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The Laverock's rose oan shimmering wings o on page 20

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
the laverock abune the grass-clamped dunes on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ed knees o hills or held in a laverock's glance on a time. on page ix

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
ntie and throstle, feltie and laverock, cheetle and chirm and chirpl on page 3

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
hunner miles ower his heid a laverock begun tae sing. on page 71
Ye can see a laverock singin, on page 76

2 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
ae oot o its smirr and reek a laverock rose heich intil the air and on page 17
paque, airth-turned base. Nae laverock had faushioned this. Raither on page 18

2 matches

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Soond shift, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The laverock tweetlin in the caller air on page 49

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Nae laverock kyths ower heich on page 79

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
flock, includin ‘The sober laverock, warbling wild’, ‘The bon
ere is a Scots riddle: ‘The laverock and the lark, The bawkie and
wer, ye’ll ken, is twa. The laverock and the lark is the same thin
3 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
up (Curlew), Gowk (Cuckoo) or Laverock (Skylark) recently? Or have y(2020)

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
k "dailygan", "carnaptious", "laverock", "queelrod" an "hurchin"!(2014)